Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Sergei Katsev

Present position	2007-present Large Lakes Observatory / Dept. of Physics, University of Minnesota Duluth Assistant Professor
Education	2002 Ph.D., Physics, University of Ottawa             Thesis: "Pattern formation in geochemical systems"                             1998 Diploma (M.Sc.), Physics, Belarus State University             Thesis: “LCAO Method for electron band structure calculations in polymers.” 1994/95 USIA Student Exchange, Physics, Montana State University Bozeman
Postdoctoral	2004–07 McGill University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and ISMER, Université du Québec à Rimouski 2005-07 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) 2002–04 University of Ottawa, Department of Physics
Selected Awards	2010 Univ. Minnesota VCO, Testing the hypothesis that reservoirs amplify human impacts on the environment: exotic species range expansions, carbon sequestration, and methane emissions, PI, $10,000. 2010 Univ. Minnesota OIP, Methane in Lake Kivu: towards a safe and environmentally responsible use of a unique geoenergy resource, PI,  $30,000. 2010 Univ. Minnesota OIP, Linking the past, present, and future: ecosystem change in Lake Malawi, Co-PI, $250,000. 2009 NSF OCE Transient diagenesis in organic-poor sediments: Lake Superior, PI, $416,961. 2009 NSF 06-563 Collaborative research: Lake Matano, Indonesia: A modern observatory of ancient cean biogeochemistry, PI, $65,984. 2007 Univ. Minnesota, Grant-in-Aid, $26,950. 2004 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, $80,000 1994-95 United States Information Agency Scholarship 1992 Best Research award, IV International Young Physicists Tournament, Moscow, Russia 1992 Second Prize, National Physics Olympiad, Belarus
Languages	Russian, English, French
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